The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.

The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included.

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British Library

T118842

Titlepages in red and black. Vols. 1-2 are dated 1729, vols. 3-4 1730 and vols. 5-6 1731. The titlepages to vols. 3-6 read: 'The musical miscellany; being a collection of choice songs, and lyrick poems: with the basses to each tune, and transpos'd for t

London : printed by and for John Watts, 1729-31. 6v.,plates : music ; 8°